On Monday 18 June 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm not sure USE flags for the meta packages are a good idea, they > could add a lot of confusion. The meta packages are supposed to > install everything, if you don't want that, don't use them.
I think what Alexander is on about is USE flags only for features that require other sub-systems outside KDE to be installed as well. Like ppp for example, or printers and scanners for another. Obviously a policy run by a human is what it will take otherwise it gets out of hand very very quickly. 'emerge *-meta' is fine if one wants everything, or 'emerge kopete kmail konqueror' if you just want a few bits like me, but there's this large no-man's land in the middle where it is just unweildy. No fault of Gentoo, it's all KDEs fault for having 300+ distinct apps/code bodies :-) alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
